San Cristobal (part 1 and 2) - Nov 5/6

After a night in Tuxla, I caught the collectivo 45 minutes to San Cristobal de las Casas. It is a pretty little colnial town nesteled up in the hills surrounded by pine forest. The temperature is considerably cooler too .. hence I have been wandering around in jeans and a jumper.

Hostel is quite social, chilled out there chatting to an Aussie and an English guy, that night headed out for some food in the centre.

Realised the next day that the charger JWo gave me for his old Nokia phone didn´t work .. first thought was "aah don´t really need a phone anyway", until I realised it was my alarm clock as well. So it was off to the market to find a replacement charger .. or barring that an alarm clock. Markets here are full of all sorts of random things, and the second shop I tried had just the thing - they even pulled out their lights to prove to me that it works.

Looking down on San Cristobal from the church on the hill

Was seriously chilly today, spent the whole day with a jumper and jeans on, even had to change my socks for some warmer ones. That afternoon (after a siesta), walked up the stairs to a nice little church on the hill. Then had some amazing chicken.

Headed out that night, with some of the guys from the hostel .. went to a Cuban style bar which had salsa dancing (didn´t bust out any moves - has been over 4 years since I last did it properly), sat close to the fire and chatted with some Dutch girls.